My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Alice: I miss myself
----Julianne Moore, as Dr. Alice Howard in the film
Still Alice
Honestly speaking, I never heard of this book until I watched the movie,
Still Alice, directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer. Soon after, I purchased a paperback copy of the book online and read it, and that is when I realized that I missed those clever undertones of Lisa Genova, hence I had to watch the movie one more time.
The American author, Lisa Genova, created a masterpiece with her heart-wrenching debut book,
Still Alice and the screen adaption of which automatically sky-rocketed the sales of the book,
Still Alice in the last month.And that's how I learned about the book!
Synopsis:
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease changes her life.
As the inevitable descent into dementia strips away her sense of self, fiercely independent Alice struggles to live in the moment. While she once placed her worth and identity in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must reevaluate her relationship with her husband, a respected scientist; her expectations of her children; and her ideas about herself and her place in the world.
